The win.mit.edu domain is an IS&T centrally maintained Microsoft Windows domain intended for general use by all of MIT. It provides a common set of services, data and tools. Many aspects and features within this domain are customizable by participating DLCs and in certain cases individual users.

Although win.mit.edu is not intended to meet every specific need on campus as a platform, it is a product and set of associated services intended to meet the needs of most users.

Available To

Students, Faculty, Staff

Benefits and key features

Fosters efficiency and collaboration across the Institute by providing a common set of services, data and tools

Many aspects are customizable

Provides not only single sign-on to systems and applications within the domain, but also extends this single sign-on to other Kerberos-enabled systems in use at MIT

Directory data is fed from other MIT systems into the WIN Domain Active Directory (AD) database, including information from the Data Warehouse and Moira

If you are running your own DLC-owned and operated Windows server:
IS&T supports DLCs joining the centrally maintained win.mit.edu Windows Domain. We also provide infrastructure accommodations in deploying independent Windows Domains on MITnet, and associated, limited support for these accommodations.

Requirements

Every machine on win.mit.edu must have a host record in the Moira database, which propagates out to a DNS record on the MITnet DNS servers. You can check if your hostname or IP is already registered using the stella command on a Unix Athena machine by typing stella hostname or stella IP to query the database. If you require a new record, request an IP address.